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VWC Opposes Dominion Gas Pipeline

7/31/2014

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The Virginia Wilderness Committee has taken a position opposing the 450 mile, 42-inch diameter interstate gas transmission pipeline proposed by Dominion Resources in May 2014.  The pipeline crosses the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains from WV to NC and would require the cutting of a permanently maintained 50 to 100 foot swath through 26 miles of the George Washington National Forest in Highland and Augusta counties. It would also cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and Appalachian Trail Corridor in Augusta and Nelson counties. A road would likely parallel the pipeline. This long, wide industrial zone would severely degrade some of the best remaining, least altered natural landscapes in the Eastern U.S., contained in the GWNF.  Read more...

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Tina
8/28/2014 08:16:14 pm

I oppose the gas pipeline. They will forever destroy our last remaining wilderness. Dominion wants to run the pipeline right through our backyards as well.

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